FileFlex is a XCMD/XFCN for HyperCard that also works smoothly with Director. A Windows version is planned for summer 1995. It is fully XBase compatible, allowing both Mac & Windows FoxPro files to be read as well as dBase III+ and MS Access. Equally, you can create and maintain FileFlex databases entirely within Director, without recourse to other database apps. Runtime licenses are US$100 per title.
FileFlex 1.6a
Component Software Industries Corp.
Post Office Box 201
Rocky Hill, NJ 08553
+1 609 497 4501
76004.2162@compuserve.com
http://www.component-net.com/fileflex/fileflex-hq.html
Oracle produce (er, probably; I have no confirmation of this, only reports
that they were due to release it in Nov 1994) "Oracle Access", a revamp of
their previous HyperSQL package, a set of XCMDs allowing HyperCard (and
therefore Mac Director) to access current Oracle databases.
ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) is intended to provide a common API across most popular databases once appropriate ODBC drivers/extensions are installed in the OS. Both Apple and Microsoft support ODBC, though you'll have to forage for the appropriate driver software and licensing to distribute it with your products.
For Windows, Solis market an ODBC XObject which uses the installed drivers (which should be available from the company who produce your database app, or from Microsoft) to allow Director to access files from any ODBC compliant database. Although this requires a certain amount of installation, this is apparently not difficult and accessing & querying the databases using SQL is straightforward.
Solis: +1 415 696 8700
I am not aware of any Mac ODBC XObjects, but there's bound to be some along before too long...